[Linux-fbdev-devel] Re: FB model basic issues (WAS: radeon, apertures & memory mapping)

[Ville Syrjälä]

On Wed, Mar 16, 2005 at 05:31:16PM +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-03-16 at 00:21 -0500, Michel Dänzer wrote:
> 
> > > > 
> > > > Actually people do use it on big-endian systems but since neither the 
> > > > mach64, ati128 or radeon drivers play with the swapper settings I can only 
> > > > assume that they haven't been tested very extensively.
> > > 
> > > You are wrong here, all of those 3 drivers do play with the swapper
> > > setting, [...]
> > 
> > I think he was referring to the DirectFB drivers.

Exactly. I prorably should have mentioned that explicitly.

> Well, do they "revert" it after atyfb/aty128fb/radeonfb set it then ?
> it's definitely set on mode switch.

The point is that there can be offscreen surfaces with different depth 
than the fbdev surface.

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